Two men were rushed to hospital with multiple-gunshot wounds Monday night after a shooting in the Overlea Blvd. and Thorncliffe Park Dr. area.

The victims were a man in his early 20s and a man in his late teens. The older man was said to have sustained life-threatening injuries, while the younger man’s injuries were said to be serious.

And in a daytime shooting Monday, a man who suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds in the Albion Rd. and Weston Rd. area died in hospital, according to Toronto Police.

The man, who was in his 20s, had been rushed to a trauma centre in life-threatening condition after he was shot several times. Toronto Police’s homicide unit has taken over the investigation.

Darren Nash said moments after he heard gunshots, he was performing CPR on the young man who collapsed at the edge of his building in northwest Toronto.

Nash was in his condominium at 236 Albion Rd. when three shots pierced the silence Monday afternoon, prompting him to run outside to see what was going on.

“I turned to my left and I saw a body on the ground with a kid over the body crying,” said Nash. “He asked me if he had a pulse. He said ‘Please save him, please save him.’ ”

Nash, 33, completes CPR training once a year for his job at East Metro Youth Services, but says he has never encountered a situation like this.

“My instincts were ‘go’, but I took a couple of seconds because I’d never seen that before.”

After he had completed about 10 compressions, a police officer arrived and took over, said Nash.

Neighbours said the young man didn’t live in the area, but that he sometimes hung out near the building, and was a member of the Somali community. Women in long scarves in sky blue, green, purple and black began to gather outside the building, some holding children by the hand.

Kadra Abdi, who is Somali, struggled to hold back tears as she stood near the entrance to the building.

“I’m crying for all my people, not only him,” said Abdi, who said she knew the man who died because he was friends with her 19-year-old daughter.

“My community is dying one by one. But who is going to help us? Nobody. We come from my country to (be) safe, but my country, my people is dying. Young people.”

Three bullet holes punctured a window in an apartment on the ground floor, where a single mother named Esther moved in two years ago. She and her 5-year-old daughter almost stayed home, but went out at the last minute.

“I’m shocked. What would happen to me if I was in there?”

Esther, who declined to give her last name, was still waiting to gain access to her home around 9 p.m. while police finished their investigation.